*this now featured in Chris Darmon’s magazine, ‘Down to Earth’, No. 88 rec’d here early August 14. Chris continues to extol Martley as a real destination Geo-village and is coming here Oct 4th with one of his field trips.

Opposite entrance to Scar Cottage, a bit of clearing revealed extensive drifts of pebbly materials often sharp, within the (Triassic) Bromsgrove Sandstone massive beds. When Chris Darmon showed us how to look at and study a rock face on the Nubbins near the Interpretation Board, very thin seams of small sharp gravel were noted (two), the conjecture being that the material looked Malvernian, created by an ‘event’ in the laying down of the main sandstone. The gravels at the latest site are much more extensive, feet thick, cross bedded with the main layers, see pictures. The road cutting shows the layers of sandstone for a considerable diatance and further study would we are sure be rewarded with more fascinating discoveries to add to the story of these deposits. We feel that they should be classified as an LGS (Local Geological Site)
PS–at least I had a 50p in my pocket for sizing, apologies for not placing it the right way up!